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Topic: Asus P5N7A-VM Diskless MD won't boot (Read 1741 times)

i got a core with some MDs up and running since maybe a year. the current version is 7.10 (the most current).The core has a R8168, where i had to modify the r8169, to prevent loading.this is running fine.

Now i got a new board (ASUS P5N7A-VM), and if i look at the features, very neat.From what i read in the wiki it uses the RTL8168 Lan COntroller, from what i read on the web, its using a RTL8211CL Chipset.Overall it has a MCP7A Nvidia Chipset.

so i tried to boot up this system through PXE. But at the end following message:

i followed every single step in those wiki pages. all went fine, without any troubles. But after booting the same error message as stated above.

after that i tried to install the ubuntu 8.10 on the MD. insatllation went fine, expect netwroking. it installed a WIFI Adapter (running fine) and a second controller (NVIDIA Ethernet Controller), which has a NO LINK indication.after stumbling around, i found out that it using the forcedeth driver.some hints in the web, using options forecedeth msi=0 and msix=0 dind't brang any help.then i tried the ethtool and set the speed to 100 and duplex to half and .... BANG .... the internet connection worked.

1. So now, the big big question, how can i setup forcedeth with fixed speed to be used under 7.10 diskless media director?!

2. on the web, i saw, that someone can use the ethtool in a script, which is performed at the start, but how to do it in the boot image for the diskless one?!

thanks donpaul.thats clear so far, but do you have any idea on how to do it exactly?e.g. if i have the script duplexoff.sh, wehre do i have to put it and how to call it, so that it is executed before the error message above appears...

sorry for asking so stupid, but i didn't dig into linux so deep so far. just following tutorials and learned some things...